Irizar is helping Mexico to install the first 100% electric bus route. It is also the first time the company has become active outside of Europe, as the Spanish manufacturer will deliver 32 zero-emission buses to Yucatán. The extra-long vehicles will transport over half a million passengers per week. Read more…
Category: Electrive
AVL and Spark EV fine-tune energy management system for FC trucks
The Austrian drive developer AVL and the British start-up Spark EV are developing an intelligent energy management system for fuel cell lorries. This should allow routes to be planned in a more “energy- and cost-efficient” way in future. Read more…
Zeekr presents LFP battery with fast charging rate
Geely’s electric car brand Zeekr is presenting a self-developed battery with LFP chemistry. The new lithium iron phosphate battery for 800-volt electric cars will be used for the first time in the Zeekr 007, which is due to be delivered from January 2024. Read more…
GM kicks off electric drive production in Toledo
General Motors is postponing the start of production of electric drives at its plant in Toledo in the US state of Ohio by nine months from the first to the fourth quarter of 2024. Read more…
Daimler Truck to rely on Uber Freight data to determine US charging corridors
Uber Freight is joining Daimler Truck and its US joint venture partners to build up heavy-duty infrastructure in North America. Greenlane, comprising DTNA, BlackRock and NextEra Energy Resources, expects to leverage Uber’s data insights to determine prime truck corridors for charging. Read more…
Turkey tightens import regulations against electric cars from China
According to media reports, Turkey wants to take action against electric car imports from China and is enacting new rules, such as the minimum number of authorised branches in the country. Only manufacturers that fulfil the new criteria will be allowed to continue importing electric cars into Turkey. An almost impossible task. Read more…
Marcel Brömlage will head Farasis Energy Europe in 2024
Farasis Energy has appointed Marcel Brömlage to lead its battery business in Europe. He will succeed Stefan Bergold as General Manager of Farasis Energy Europe on 1 February 2024 amidst an internal shuffle. Read more…
France to stop subsidizing Chinese EVs
The list of electric cars eligible for subsidies from 1 January has now been published. It includes around 65 per cent of all electric cars sold in France. But you won’t find an electric car from China on this list. Read more…
Walmart Canada fields first electric trucks in British Columbia
The three battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia semi-trucks will operate out of the retailer’s grocery distribution centre in Surrey, which was designed as a hub for the retailer’s alternatively-powered vehicles. Read more…
Plugsurfing integrates route planner into its app
The route planning tool is operated by Chargetrip and shows EV drivers the best places to charge at 600,000 charging points in 27 European countries. However, the map only shows fast and HPC charging points. Read more…
DHL Supply Chain North America gets electric trucks
DHL Supply Chain is deploying its first Class 8 electric trucks in the US. The two Freighliner hit the road in California. Another 11 units will be deployed in Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and California. Read more…
Hyundai starts building new development centre in Germany
The Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center (HMETC) has started construction of a 25,000 square metre central development site in Rüsselsheim, Germany. In future, the centre will primarily work on further advances for emission-free mobility. Read more…
SamTrans orders fuel cell bus fleet from New Flyer
The Canadian manufacturer New Flyer has received a major order from California for 108 fuel cell buses. The San Mateo county public transport operator SamTrans also revealed plans to transition its fleet away from diesel by 2034. Read more…
Tesla must revise Autopilot software
Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ system is the subject of several official proceedings. The most extensive was initiated a good two years ago by the US transport authority NHTSA and has since been expanded. Tesla is now finally delivering the software update. Read more…
Hyundai to sell the Creta EV in India
Hyundai has announced plans to enter the mass-market EV segment in India with the Creta EV in 2025. After the premium segments were addressed with the Kona and Ioniq 5 EVs, the mass market segment is to follow. Read more…
Echion receives funds from the Faraday Battery Challenge
The British niobium anode materials supplier says the UK Government has awarded it significant funding to undertake a collaborative research project with cell development experts, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG). Read more…
Mkango produces recycled rare earth magnets
Recycled rare earth magnets are rolling off the production line in Birmingham, UK. A subsidiary of the Canadian company Mkango plans to process up to 20 tonnes of permanent magnets there initially using an energy-saving process. Read more…
SVOLT promises LFP cells with charging rates of up to 5C
Among other things, SVOLT presented its new “Short Blade” battery cell series for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids at the company’s Battery Day. These are fast-charging LFP cells in prismatic format. Read more…
Togg to reveal serial electric sedan by end of 2024
Turkish electric car manufacturer Togg plans to start series production of its second model in 2025 and begin exporting its vehicles to Europe. According to Turkey’s Minister of Industry and Technology Fatih Kacır, the second Togg model will be a saloon, which will be unveiled at the end of 2024 and go into series production in 2025. Read more…
Lucid CFO Sherry House quits
House will resign from her position immediately “to pursue other opportunities,” the carmaker says. However, she will remain available in an “advisory role” until the end of the year. Read more…
